GASP: Journey Coming To PC!

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Well, a journey is coming to PC. Journey of a Roach, specifically. I’m sorry. I know you hate me now, and I’m fully prepared to accept the shoulder-straining burden of your lodestone of loathing. I just couldn’t help myself. The idea crept into my mind, and I knew it would never die no matter how much I tried to poison, stomp, or nuke it – much like, well, a roach. I had to sweep it out of my brain chambers once and for all. So. Here we are. Anyway, Journey of a Roach. It’s a point-and-click adventure from Swiss developer Koboldgames about two roaches named Jim and Bud. There’s apparently no dialogue whatsoever, which could be quite interesting! There is also no sand surfing, majestically billowing scarves, or profound, wordless heart-to-hearts with other human beings. Again, sorry.

Roach adventures do have a history of greatness, though. There’s the exceedingly Kafka-inspired Bad Mojo and… ummmm. Well, there is that. Journey of a Roach doesn’t sound quite as unsettlingly grotesque, for better or worse.

“Roach Jim and his sidekick Bud are out and about to find their way from a deserted vault to the Earth’s surface. Players steer them through classic point & click adventure game puzzles. Certain challenges can be overcome by using the roach’s natural features, though: Being roaches, Jim and Bud have the ability to crawl up walls and on ceilings, as well as on items. Players use the third-insect-perspective to guide Jim and Bud through the 3D comic world. There will be no written or spoken dialogues in Journey of a Roach, by the way, as the insects are using their very own, easily understandable signal language.”

So yes, it’s about roaches after the apocalypse, which could be a fun plot setup – or a super bog-standard one depending on where Koboldgames goes with it. Also, the roaches can do roach things, and who doesn’t love doing roach things? I kind of doubt we’ll be doing much human-horrifying, though, seeing as most apocalypses vaporize our frail, non-carapaced skin long before that of hardier insects like roaches, scorpions, and Twinkies.

I do like that they refer to their main character as Roach Jim, though. I think I’m going to start calling ours Human Jim. Or maybe Dreary Stereotypical British Countryside Robot Jim. Perhaps DSBCRJ (pronounced “Disbickraj”) for short. But what about you, dearest readers? How do you label the most important Jims in your lives?

Oh, er, right: Journey of a Roach will be out in November. Anyway, BACK TO JIMTALK.

Same here…
I shall now probably never even look at Journey of A Roach as it will be forever connected in my mind to that feeling of abject, PS3-less disappointment which you created. It’s like expecting to be given a Mars bar and getting an apple instead. There’s nothing wrong with apples per se, but you rather wish this one were slightly more confectionery-like…

I hadn’t heard of a game called Journey until I looked it up. With it not being a PC game.
Anyway, Bad Mojo – I enjoyed that. Played it a few years ago after tracking down a CD version. The spider that ran out from under something and ate me was horrible.

Seriously, Go fuck yourself, and I mean that honestly. As someone who doesn’t own a PS3 and has really wanted to play Journey, that was not funny in any way shape or form. I’m seriously done With RPS if your just going to post joke headlines like that to get attention.

Well, i don’t particularly care about Journey one way or another, but i’m dissatisfied with the fact that RPS posts headlines like these to trick the RSS-using people into reading an unrelated article. It does seem like something done for the sake of cheap hits.

In all fairness, That’s what I was really upset about, Not so much that I won’t get to play it., but the fact that RPS would trick people with a stupid headline to gain hits. Completely unprofessional for a News Outlet.

And now for something completely different: Have any of you tested this Bad Mojo Redux version? The link in the other article is dead, but i remember reading some not so nice things about it. Like that the PC versions graphics are still inferior to the Mac ones.

I have a thing to mention about roach games: apparently in mid-2000s there was a Russian game called “AgORa: Battle For The Bread Bin”, which featured brown and black roaches fighting in a war. And just like a roach, it was utterly insignificant.

I don’t understand why people seem upset, or what percentage of the comments are jokes and the people aren’t really upset. There are more fun PC games than any of us will ever play, so why worry about games that aren’t on the PC? Also I’m sure it isn’t easy continually creating fun puns and titles for RPS posts, this strikes me as just another playful title. “Knickers in twists get you must not,” as Yoda once said. It’s probably horrible to write something in fun then find such vitriol aimed at you – please people, try and think how you’d feel to find the comments full of apparent meanness. +1 for Nathan, as good a writer as all the other RPS writers, who are already goodplusbetter writers than all the non-RPS writers. Keep on going.

Uh, don’t you think it’s kind of dumb to expect people to feel the slightest interest in the new, unknown game about which the article is actually written after intentionally screwing with them about the availability of a widely celebrated and completely unrelated game? Why even make this joke? At the absolute best, it’s a distraction, a poor form of humor that has nothing to do with the subject at hand, and at worst it’s an upsetting disappointment that makes it impossible to care about the news of this new game. Most everyone who read this at the very least rolled their eyes at the prank and felt too deflated about that to seriously care about Journey of the Roach, which means you’ve done that game a disservice.

Honestly, this is just the most obvious of many examples recently in which RPS has been so busy trying to be funny that it’s obscured the content. I really respect the journalism that you lot often do, but more and more I find it difficult to wade through your writing to get to it.

I will say that learning there will be a comedic adventure game about two non-speaking roaches has made me even happier than when I thought we were just getting a port of ‘Journey’. Right, friends? Friends?